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The Waukon High School football team took its Class 2A State Play-Off hopes right down to the final seconds, but was ultimately denied a fourth play-off qualification in the past five years with a 34-16 loss at Class 2A top-rated North Fayette Valley Friday, October 21. With that loss, the Indians fell out of automatic play-off contention by finishing as the third-place team in Class 2A District 4.

The Waukon volleyball team wrapped up its regular season by bringing an end to both its Northeast Iowa Conference dual match and tournament season. That regular season dual match schedule came to a close with a five-set loss in a marathon home match with Decorah Tuesday, October 11 before the volleyball Tribe played to just a single match win at the Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament Saturday, October 14 to finish in seventh place.

Finishing the Northeast Iowa Conference season with a similar result as its Northeast Iowa Conference Tournament effort - a single match win in six matches, the Indian netters finished their regular season with a 9-23-1 overall record. The volleyball Tribe will now begin postseason tournament play Wednesday, October 19 at and against North Fayette Valley, details of which can be found in a shaded box elsewhere on these same pages.

The Kee cross country team competed at the Upper Iowa Conference Meet hosted by Starmont High School at Arlington Thursday, October 13, the Hawks’ final meet before their postseason effort to extend their season. The Hawks tallied team scores in both the varsity girls and  boys races, the Kee girls finishing fourth and the boys placing sixth.

“It was an excellent night to run,” Kee cross country coach Pat Wagner said.

GIRLS VARSITY TEAM SCORES
South Winneshiek 34; Central Elkader 46; Edgewood-Colesburg 100; KEE 101; North Fayette Valley 143; Clayton Ridge 145; Starmont 166; MFL/MarMac 188

BOYS VARSITY TEAM SCORES
South Winneshiek 23; Starmont 35; North Fayette Valley 80; Central Elkader 103; Clayton Ridge 136; KEE 163

BOYS MIDDLE SCHOOL TEAM SCORES
Postville 50; North Fayette Valley 52; South Winneshiek 55; KEE 65; Edgewood-Colesburg 70; Central Elkader 88

A somewhat depleted Waukon football team riddled by injury from its first Class 2A District 4 loss of the season a week earlier showed little sign of that depletion in dominating a winless Oelwein squad on the road Friday, October 14. Minus their first and second string quarterbacks and most veteran wide receiver, the Indians, instead, ran rampant over the host Huskies and limited Oelwein to just 122 yards of total offense in posting a 48-8 victory, more than half of those Husky yards coming in the fourth quarter of the ballgame.

“We stressed the importance of each player doing his job, pointing out the absence of other players does not impact each individual’s performance,” Waukon football coach Chad Beermann said. “Basically, if I am left tackle, it does not matter who is carrying the ball, I have a job to do.”

A rung on the Class 2A District 4 championship ladder was at stake when two of the District’s three still undefeated teams took to the field at Upper Iowa University in Fayette Friday,

October 7. Even though the fourth-rated Waukon football team was technically the home team for the neutral site, it was the second-rated Union Knights that made themselves feel more at home in handing the gridiron Tribe a 37-16 defeat.

“Union’s size and speed was better than ours,” Waukon football coach Chad Beermann said. “In addition, we tackled poorly. We have also lived off turnovers, and Union recovered their only fumble, though we did have five to six kids in the area.”

The Kee volleyball team battled through its busiest week of the season, playing what amounted to nine total matches in a five-day span. The Hawks split a double dual at Turkey Valley Tuesday, October 4, winning three of four sets to defeat the host school in an Upper Iowa Conference (UIC) match but also falling to New Hampton in two straight sets. The Kee netters then swept a second UIC match from Postville in three straight sets at home Thursday, October 6 before winning five of six matches at the Riceville Tournament Saturday, October 8 to claim at least a share of the tournament title.

The Waukon boys cross country team competed in the South Winneshiek Invitational Tuesday, October 4, scoring its highest team finish of the season. Behind a pair of consecutive finishes within the top 20 individuals, the Indians scored 54 team points to finish second behind Decorah in the six-team scoring field.

The Indians were next scheduled to compete in the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet to be held Tuesday, October 11 at Oelwein. The distance Tribe will then look to extend its season competing at its Class 2A State Qualifying Meet Thursday, October 20 at Monticello, the details of which are printed in a shaded box in the print edition and e-edition of The Standard.

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The Waukon girls cross country team wrapped up its regular season of invitational competition at the South Winneshiek Invitational Tuesday, October 4. The meet runs all high school runners in the same race, with no separation between varsity and junior varsity, and the Indians tallied 142 team points to finish fifth in the seven team-scored field.

The Indians were next scheduled to compete in the Northeast Iowa Conference Meet to be held Tuesday, October 11 at Oelwein. The distance Tribe will then look to extend its season competing at its Class 2A State Qualifying Meet Thursday, October 20, the details of which are printed in a shaded box in the print edition and e-edition.

For more complete coverage, pick up this week's print edition or subscribe to our e-edition by clicking here.

The Kee cross country team completed a busy week with a pair of meets within three days of one another. The Hawk boys were able to tally team scores at the varsity level in both the South Winneshiek Invitational Tuesday, October 4 and the New Hampton Invitational Thursday, October 6, with the Hawk girls managing a team score only at the South Winneshiek Invitational.

The Hawks are scheduled to compete in their Upper Iowa Conference Meet to be hosted by Starmont Thursday, October 13. Kee’s distance dandies will then look to extend their season at the Class 1A State Qualifying Meet at Cedar Falls the following Thursday, October 20, beginning at 3 p.m. Additional details of that State Qualifying Meet are printed in a shaded box in the print edition and e-edition of The Standard.

The Waukon football team played to a happy Homecoming Friday, September 30 by rolling over fellow Class 2A District 4 opponent Monticello by a 44-6 final result. In a battle of air vs. ground attacks, the Indian passing game proved to be very little match on the scoreboard for the visiting Panthers’ rushing attack.

Even though the Indians gave up 270 rushing yards in the contest, that one-dimensional Monticello attack did not produce like the Tribe’s air show that resulted in 265 yards and all five of Waukon’s touchdowns. Not only was the Panther offense one dimensional on the ground - Monticello completing just one pass for 21 yards in the contest, but its rushing attack also proved one dimensional within itself, as junior quarterback Max Keleher accounted for 218 of those rushing yards all on his own.